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(Continued from page 1)
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THE BATTALION
Friday, December 5, 1969
College Station, Texas
Page 3
AP News Analysis
Alleged Massacre by GIs:
Could Americans Do It?
EDITOR’S NOTE—Allega
tions that American GIs mas
sacred South Vietnamese civil
ians during a raid on a village
complex last year have stunned
the United States. How could it
happen? is the most frequently
asked question. In the following
analysis, John T. Wheeler, who
reported the war in Vietnam
for the Associated Press for
several years, gives an insight
into the conditions of a strange
war in which anything can hap
pen.
By John T. Wheeler
Associated Press Writer
To try to understand the al
leged massacre by American
GIs of civilians at My Lai it is
necessary also to understand the
atmosphere of a war which has
led many U.S. fighting men to
feel they are as much at war
against Vietnam as for it.
While the communiques speak
of battles involving companies
and battalions—the clash of pro
fessional soldiers doing their grim
job—each GI carries with him
the certain knowledge that in any
village there may be men, women,
and even children who are also
the enemy, waiting for the time
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and place to attack him.
Brutality, and indifference to
human life, are commonplace in
Vietnam. Even the disfigurement
of dead GIs is common.
In Vietnam the killing of civil
ians was a practice established
by the Viet Cong as a major
part of the war long before the
first U.S. ground troops were
committed in March 1965.
By official count, more than
20,000 civilians had been mur
dered by that time in enemy ex
ecutions aimed at so thoroughly
terrorizing the countryside that
none would resist. The total now
is more than 40,000 including
more than 3,000 killed by the en
emy in Hue when they held part
of that city for 2% weeks. At
Hue, the victims were predomi
nantly civilians of all ages.
Many were killed simply by ty-
backs, shoving them into a trench
and burying them alive.
It was into this conflict that
the American troops were plung
ed. They had been told to kill
the Viet Cong who were bad and
woo the peasant who only aided
the enemy because he had no
choice. Given a chance, the offi
cial line went, Vietnam wanted
to be free and democratic just
like America.
But the GIs found a war of
sundered families, and divided
allegiances to any regime, either
Viet Cong or Saigon.
There is no front in Vietnam,
no rear, no safety. To the GI of
a rifle company everyone out
side the perimeter can be sus
pected of plotting to kill him.
In Vietnam the word civilian
does no describe noncombatants.
It describes dress more certainly
than occupation.
In Vietnam the GI has plenty
of reason for his distrust and
fear:
Item: U.S. Marines found beg
ging children to whom they had
been giving food were stealing
grenades that were tossed back
at the Leathernecks during the
night.
Item: A U.S. truck was blown
up, killing all aboard, on high
way 13, called “bloody Route 13”
because of the frequency of min
ings. GIs from another truck
quickly traced out the electrical
wires to the detonator and found
a young girl still holding the
handle. They shot her.
The Pentagon says that today’s
soldiers are the most sophisticat
ed in history. But more than be
ing able to operate intricate elec
tronic equipment and the like, the
GIs in Vietnam also could see at
first hand the corruption, the in
difference of Vietnamese soldiers
to winning the war, the contrast
between the poverty in the coun
tryside and the comparative
wealth of the cities and the way
Vietnamese merchants, bar girls
and even children selling black
market American soft drinks
gouged them. Added to this were
the deaths and maimings of |
friends. Cynicism mixed with an
ger rapidly replaced the early
idealism among combat troops.
Vietnamese were called “gooks”
and “slopes” in a way that some
times translated as subhuman.
No spark sets off a fire unless
it falls into combustible mate
rial. The sparks that ignite
American GIs are snipers, mines
and booby traps. The major
cause of casualties in Vietnam
are mines'and booby traps. Snip
ers also are a major factor. The
three are all the more hated be
cause each is hidden and after
the damage is done, there usually
is no chance for the American
infantrymen to even the score
because no enemy can be found.
Often intelligence will pinpoint
a village as the source of the
mine and booby trap makers and
snipers. Repeated sweeps through
the hamlet turn up little or noth
ing except more casualties. And
hatred builds up fob the villagers
who know the snipers and know
where the hidden traps are but
don’t tell. Then one day some
thing snaps in one or more men.
The frustration and fear drives
them across that line of civilized
conduct that in combat zones is a
hazy mark at best.
There are indications that
these things might have been at
work on the men who are ac
cused of massacre in My Lai last
year.
The U.S. Command’s position
has been from the beginning that
civilians are not to be harmed.
But the case for the sanctity of
civilian life is weakened by the
knowledge that there are South
Vietnamese assassination teams
—sometimes led by Americans—
operating in the countryside kill
ing enemy officials, as opposed
to soldiers, often in their beds
at home, Viet Cong style. And
GIs who have searched out a
village after American bombers
have done their work cannot help
but be a bit cynical about orders
not to molest civilians.
A senior officer in the legal
field was asked after a series of
murder trials earlier this year
what he thought had motivated
the Americans involved, all found
guilty.
He said nearly all the cases
he had handled involved villag
ers in Viet Cong held areas.
When the pressure of fear or
hate or some combination of
these factors hit the men hard
enough, they broke down with a
sort of combat fatigue that end
ed with slayings.
In some cases the same men
who have had to stand trial for
killing civilians have helped sup
port Vietnamese orphanages or
become involved in unofficial re
lief operations for families made
refugees by the war.
“In war, everything is realer
than real. The capacity for great
violence rises to the surface, but
so does a capacity for great com
passion,” an Army doctor said.
“Remember, part of the brutaliz
ing men undergo is necessary to
their psychological survival. You
can’t look war in the face with
the kind of emotional responses
we use in the states. You would
go mad.”
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